> So is mingw-based better so the user doesn't have a huge cygwin > installation in their c:\cygwin? It would be nice to have a more > self-contained install.
The PCB installer is only 9 MB but I haven't tried stripping out debug information yet. The only other executable pcb needs is one to set up the gdk image loader cache at install time. > How much Unix tools does gEDA really need to run? Just the Scheme > interpreter? I don't think there's much in the way of unix-isms inherent in the operation of any of the tools, aside from what the user adds around them. > Is m4 required if you don't use m4 footprint libraries? No, but there's a bug in the newlib converter that needs to be fixed for a non-m4 system to function as well as an m4 system, primarily dealing with footprints with spaces in the macro names. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
